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Without ever practically using this system, my first impression is that this is how mech operating systems would have to be. At a certain complexity of vehicle, you would need all of: manufacturer base features/diagnostics, safe-mode control, an open market of source code to add in, pilot preferences, and then real nerd stuff where you customize in your own routines. All the while being able to explore a live running system as it is running without having to trust closed binary only software. Of course the world we live in would never go this way, proprietary unknowable, pre-government hacked, unrepairable trash it is for us.



I think Pharo still shines in open-source desktop applications. If I'd ever make a desktop application it'd be in Pharo as I'd want to encourage people hacking on it without ever committing it to git (if they don't want to) and have their own unique version of it.




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